The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-11
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


farms and has made fortune from them
In Washington a man has been fined $40 for
stealing twenty five ounce dog valued at 81 an
SoMERvILLE Journal Three million women
work for money in this country. The other
millions make the men work for it.
The longest street railway in the country is
now in operation between Elizabeth and New
ark N j., the round trip being nearly thirty
miles, for which the fare is 20 cents
HARPERs Bazaar: Mrs. Nouveau Ito departing
guest)-Good night Mr.. Anger. had begun to
think you had gone. and that we. had missed
the pleasure of saying goodbye to you
THE elder Carnot. speaking of his son, says
''Under his presidency any one can think. pray
or play as he fit because, said the old man.
Il educated him, and taught him to be tolerant"
Mr. AND Mrs BATES, of South Hanover, n.
H, are 90 years oldA They were born in the
same town, the same day, at the same hour
and. as the old gentlemen says, were married
at the same time
CONGRESSMAN KELLEY, 'the Father of the
House." is still in feeble health, but he is rapid
ly growing stronger He will make full re-
covery if he does not strain himself by over
work-a tendency he has always been prone to.
THE Rev. Daniel P. Pike whose death has
lately been announced at Newburyport. Mass,
is credited with preaching 600 sermons marry
ing more than 1000 persons, conducting more
than 1000 funerals and baptizing tby INNER
sionl nearly 100 converts
ATLANTA Constitution: AT the authors read
ings in New York, James Whitcomb Riley, of
Indianapolis, made the greatest success. We
glad of it, Riley is the coming man.
What he writes has the American ring to it.
IN writing of his youth to an autograph col
lector, Gen. Lew Wallace says: Il fear you
wouldn't have called me a good boy. as I
hunted fshed and ran wild generally until
eIphtaeO. and then | became a student
and that is the course L would lay down for
every life"
THE Prince of Wales has received present
of table that is nearly ten feet in circumfer-
enes made out of the hide of rhinoceros
killed in the recent Kilimaniaro expedition.
The top of the table which is beautifully pol
ished and quite unique in design. is partially
supported by horns nearly twenty inches in
length.
CHARLES STAPLEToN PELHAM CLINTON, son
of Lord Charles Pelham Clinton, and cousin of
the Duke of Newcastle, is New York news
paper man. and estimable. Woodworking in
dividuaL He SAYS he has suffered greatly by
being constantly taken for the Newark swiDdler,
Talbot. who assumed additional alias the
name of Pelham Clinton
A TOUCH of color is one thing; a great many
touches another. Two or three bows of ribbon.
apparently doing some service here and there
on a dress, are pretty set off its color and give
grace and elegance to frock otherwise simple.
but bows dotted about everywhere without the
smallest reason. do but to destroy the unity
of a costume and to make it resemble patchwork.
In the eyes of an artist those bows in ladders
and garlands and focks are hideous.
An English physician who has investigated
the characteristics and surroundings of
ten arians says he finds that the average quail
ties were good family history, well-made
frame of average stature. spare rather than
stout, robust, with good health, appetite and
digestion, capable of exertion, good sleepers of
placid temperament and good intelligence. with
little need for and little consumption of alcohol
and animal food. The man who aspires to be a
centenarian should therefore fit himself out
with these qualifications.
A BRIGHT American farmers boy, at Marl-
borough on the Hudson, has contrived several
labor-saving appliances. He has arranged the
gates of his fathers farm so that they be
opened and closed without the driver getting
out of the wagon. He has also constructed a
gravity railroad from the farm barns to the
house for the transportation of milk, eggs and
similar produce. What with the various labor
saving inventions and contrivances that are
accessible to the farmer of recent years, farm
ing need 20 longer be very toilsome occupa-
ton.
Miss ROSE ELIZABETH CLEVELAND does not
look at all like the woman who could be cajoled
by an enterprising publisher into doing things
that she did not want to do. She gives every
indication in her appearance of being women
of great strength of character and determln-
alton. She is of medium height. blonde and
rather stout Her eyes are light blue. and she
bears strong family likeness to her brother.
She shows on her face the stamp of woman to
whom the overcoming of obstacles is a pleasure,
but there is nothing of the blue-stocking about
her appearance.
YOUNG Bostonian has written to several
ointment generals asking how they felt in
their first battles. General Sherman says that
such questions are hard to answer Admiral
Porter saws his first battle occurred when he
wa twelve of and that he did not
feel much afraid. General Pleasonton remarks
that his first battle was in Mexico in 1847, and
that he felt that the sooner the enemy was
thrashed the better it would be; while General
Averell says that the battle of Bull Rum 1861,
was his first. and that when he saw the enemy
he thought that great and useless crime was
about to be committed
THE Indian Meteorological Department has
published report in which Mr.. Blanford,
head of the department, discusses the theory,
first started during the Madras famine ten
years ago. that famine tends to recur in south
ern India at periods when the suns spots at
the minimum of size and frequency. Mr..
Blanford comes to the conclusion that there
sufficient condolences to support this theory.
Nevertheless he says, droughts of more or less
severity do visit parts of India not liable to the
influence of cyclonic disturbances at intervals
of ten or eleven years. and the reason cannot be
conjectured satisfactorily.
THE nervous character of hay fever land
pecialy of some of its victims, who perhaps
would escape if they did not know the time of
year) was curiously illustrated in tho interna-
tional medical congress by Dr. J. Mackenzie.
of Baltimore. He stated case of a woman who
had been under his care, who had always had
an attack of hay fever whenever exposed to the
pollen of roses, and even the sight of it would
cause violent attack He caused very per-
feet artificial rose to be made. and one morning
when the patient to the Office entirely
free from hay fever. he placed the rose near by,
and in less than minute her nostrils were
Guided, eyes REDEEMED and suffused. and she
was in the midst of "a bad attack. The air
pure and there was no dust on the flower Aft
er having been informed of the trick, fresh poll
en- put the flower had effect, and since
then she can use roses without trouble
THE renowned composer Brahms according
to the Pail Mall Gazette, finds it impossible to
work except amid absolutely quiet surroundings
He cannot endure the least noise either above
under, or at the sides of the in which he